Director of Research at Livestock Research Innovation Corporation | 2023 Nuffield Canada Scholar 🇨🇦

Guelph, ON
Joined February 2017
Excited to share my @NuffieldCanada Scholar Report: 'Genetics and Genomics in the Canadian Beef Industry: A Sustainable Solution.' Please share with your beef networks! 🔗 Read it here: nuffield.ca/_files/ugd/39d0c… #nuffieldcanada #nuffieldinternational
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Join us next week in our panel discussion at the @CRSB_beef AGM in Toronto, on the role of genetics on advancing sustainable beef in Canada #beefgenetics #canadianbeef #beefresearch #sustainablebeef #livestockresearch
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I’m excited to share I’ll be a panelist at the @CRSB_beef AGM next week. Join Betty-Jo @AgSights, Matt Bowman, Bob Wilson, and I in our conversation on the role of genetics in cattle sustainability 🌎 🧬 @LivestockInnov #beefresearch #sustainablebeef #beefgenetics
Today is the last day to register for the 2025 CRSB AGM and Conference. To view the agenda and register, click here: bit.ly/4j9RIlu
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Attend this year’s @BeefGuelph Field Day at the Ontario Beef Research Centre: 🗓️ Thursday Oct 9th 🕔 5-7pm 🍕 Pizza to be served 🎟️ Free to attend Hear updates on pasture research and hear from Dr. Mike Steele's lab speaking on their research on DairyXBeef calves
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Join @LivestockInnov Horizon Webinar in collaboration with @UofG_FfT!
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📢New collaborative briefing with @UofG_FfT: “Managing Agri-Food Pathogens: Canadian Context & Pressures” Highlights include emergency preparedness by commodity groups, industry-relevant research & next steps for the industry sector Read it here! foodfromthought.ca/wp-conten…
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Dr. John Cranfield, an agri-food economist and long-standing member of @UofG 's faculty has been named the new dean of the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC). Learn more: uoguel.ph/ouw96
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📽️We're excited to moderate the post-screening panel of World Without Cows tonight! @worldwithoutcow 🎙️CEO @ksomerville55 will moderate a panel (@Semex @BeefFarmersON @Alltech Stanton Farms) on the cultural, economic, nutritional, and environmental significance of cattle 🌎
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Attending the prescreening tonight in Guelph: @worldwithoutcow documentary 🍿📽️ @ksomerville55 (@LivestockInnov) will moderate a panel with @semex, @BeefFarmersON, @Alltech, and Stanton Farms 🎙️ Trailer 🔗 youtu.be/nz4D7CIXZ5Y #sustainableagriculture #worldwithoutcows
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Thanks for an informative tour at @circlerlamb using @AgSights technology! 🐑 🖥️ Looking forward to continue supporting our members at LRIC @LivestockInnov 💯
At todays @AgSights AGM, we toured the innovative sheep operation @circlerlamb 🐑 and learned about @AgSights modern tools from breeding to processing to sales 🧬🥩 🖥️ Thanks for our continued collaborations! @AgSights @BeefGuelph @OMAFAinnovates @BeefFarmersON @CRSB_beef
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🧠Curious about the history of research extension in Ontario’s Ag sectors through LRIC’s lens? 📖 Watch @LivestockInnov CEO, Kelly Somerville @ksomerville55, share insights from our GRIP Symposium🎙️ 🔗youtu.be/al_bS6FriF4?feature… 📺 Stay tuned for more LRIC #SpeakerHighlights
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At the 2025 @NuffieldCanada AGM and couldn’t be more thankful to finish the program with this amazing group of ag leaders 🇨🇦 Thank you @NuffieldCanada and to my Canadian sponsor @Semex 💯 #nuffieldcanada #nuffieldinternational #agriculturalleadership
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Congratulations to the 2023 @NuffieldCanada Scholars for their presentations today! 🇨🇦
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News Brief: Nuffield Canada Scholars Presentations set for Halifax - mailchi.mp/b3768423dfa7/nuff…
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🎉Thrilled to share that I've joined @LivestockResearch as the new Director of Research! Looking forward to contributing to the growth and innovation in livestock research with an amazing team 🙌 livestockresearch.ca/article…
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Currently at Science in the Pub hosted by @PoultryIndCou with invited Speaker, Bill Ireland, highlighting the importance of water quality in poultry production 🎤 💧 📈 #poultryresearch #poultryscience #waterquality #agricultureresearch #poultryindustrycouncil
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Grateful for the opportunity for the @LivestockInnov Mentorship Program to visit @WallensteinFeed today! 🌾🚚 An impressive and dynamic feed mill with local roots, ensuring efficient, high qualify, safe, and nutritious livestock feed across Ontario! 🇨🇦
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Happy Holidays from the Centre for Genetic Improvement of Livestock 🎄🇨🇦@CgilUofG @ABSc_UofG @UofGuelphOAC Thank you for an incredible 2024! ✨
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Very proud of Alaina MacDonald and the other student recipients of the @OntarioFarms OFA Bursary awards. Great to see organizations like OFA support @OneHealthUofG integrative research and the many producers that approached the students after to offer their help!
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At the Breeding for Resiliency 2024 RDGP Symposium, producer @benloewith from @SummitStation Dairy and Creamery shares how he builds a story about what happens on their farm: 🎤 “My main goal when engaging with the public is to show that my values are the same as theirs” 🐄
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